"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Whatever happens, take responsibility."

Robbins, Anthony on responsibility
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"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

Stoppard, Tom on beginning
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

Sculley, John on risk
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"I am more important than my problems."

Ferrer, Jose on courage
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"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it."

Almanac, Mary S. on possibilities
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Bacon, Francis on opportunity
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"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."

Brown, Les on fear
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"The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

Ustinov, Peter on optimism
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"A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything"

Proverb, African on wisdom
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."

Rimbaud, Arthur on youth
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows"

E. G. Lewis on optimism   

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."

Scott, Sir Walter on adversity
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on regret
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"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."

Wordsworth, William on kindness
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

Wordsworth, William on nature
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"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."

Dyer, Wayne on preparation
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"Everything is practice."

Pele on practice
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"There is always a difference between truth and reality. "

Tadj Abelkader on conviction   

"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."

Terry Pratchett on   

"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."

Terry Pratchett on   

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

Proverb, Yiddish on words
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"Blame is safer than praise."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on criticism
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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Carrel, Alexis on suffering
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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